In her 16-year-old upscale Lowcountry, SC life, the biggest problems Emily Amber Ross has had to face run along the lines of designing alternative Halloween costumes, losing five pounds before school pictures, s ourcing aromatherapy candles, and finding a bridesmaid dress out of season. Until she hears an old gospel song that leads her to question who she really is. When she launches an Internet community for school-which she names The Motherless Child Project, after the song-her world spins out of control. A dangerous crush, a disturbing world of police, judges, phony exams, and disappearing parents... How can a routine school assignment go so wrong?